Woods v. Bourne Co.’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 978 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Marvel Characters, Inc. v. Simon (2002), Gaiman v. McFarlane (2004)
13 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 114 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 304 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Carnegie v. United States · Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona · Berry Estates, Inc. v. Regan · Durham Industries, Inc. v. Tomy Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to preserve during the post-termination period the panoply of contractual obligations that governed pre-termination uses of derivative works by derivative work owners or their licensees”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The goal of keeping derivative works in public circulation does not require that publishers rather than authors receive royalties for their use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.